Learning Enhancement and Applications Development

Research Lab

Projects

Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator Role

Award# DE-MS0000022, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: Gulf Coast Regional Center of Excellence.
Collaborators: Drs. Bryan P. Rasmussen, and Matt Elliott.
Project Timeline 2023-2028
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Award# 2318386, NSF- IUSE HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: SedimentSketch, a teaching tool in and beyond the sedimentology classroom to provide equitable and inclusive Learning for Hispanic students.
Collaborators: Drs. Anna Stepanova, Juan Carlos Laya, Tracy Hammond, and Carlos Alvarez Zarikian.
Project Timeline 2023-2026
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Project Team:

Award# 2337105, NSF – IUSE: Improving undergraduate students critical thinking and ability to solve environmental problems with fossil records through FossilSketch application.
Collaborators: Drs. Anna Stepanova, Christina Belanger, and Tracy Hammond.
Project Timeline2024-2027
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Project Team

Evaluator Role:

  1. Award# 2349705, REU Site: Multifunctional Materials. Collaborators: Drs. Ibrahim Karaman, and Bilal Mansoor
  2. Award Number: 2337194, Maximizing the Impact of Engineering Laboratory Studies to Transform Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum and Advance Student Outcomes Institution: Rutgers University, Collaborators: Drs. Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Judith R. Harrison
  3. Award Awaited, REU Site: 3D Printing of NextGen Multifunctional Batteries at TAMU and UTEP. Collaborators: Drs. Dimitris Lagonndas, Todie Lutkenhaus, Micah Green, James Boyd, and colleagues from UTEP

Other Projects: 

  1. Text Classifier: An AI based model to classify human written text from chatbots using human centered chracteristics
  2. EdGUIDE (Educators Guidebook for Understanding Instruction by Design and Experience ). An educational web-based tool designed to provide easy-to-follow, systematic steps to guide instructors in designing their courses using a backward design process (in prototype stage)
  3. Relative Effectiveness of Instructional Strategies: Series of work with use of ICAP framework to examine role and effectiveness of instructional activities.